APUSH Road to Revolution Key Events

Writs of Assistance 1760-1761

• General search warrants, seen as a violation of fundamental rights

• Reason for the 4th Amendment

Proclamation of 1763

• Used to replace the authority of expansion to the King

• Colonies couldn’t expand west for the Appalachian

• Direct reaction to Pontiac’s Rebellions

Sugar Act

• Raised revenues to pay for military expenses

• Placed a duty on imported sugar from the West Indies

• Related to the Navigation Acts of 1733

Currency Act

• Attempt to regulate currency, only use hard currency to pay debts

• No more printing of existing currency

• Constant shortage of hard currency

Stamp Act

• Required stamped paper for anything paper

• First piece of taxation that affects everyone in each social class

• Caused protesting and a different stamp showing how much this angered colonists

Quartering Act I

• Colonists pay for housing and goods needed by soldiers in the colonies

• They didn’t have to house soldiers

• Reason for the 3rd Amendment

Stamp Act Congress

• A meeting that declared that Parliament had no power tot he tax the colonies

• Attempt to appeal the Stamp Acts

• 9 colonies write the declaration of Rights and Grievances to the King

Townshend Acts

• Tax on glass, Paint, Lead, paper, Tea

• Colonists thought these taxes were worse than military action

• Colonists boycotted British goods

Circular Letter

• Written by Samuel Adams

• Argued against taxation without representation to Grenville

• Called for the collective action yo defend the rights of the people

Committees Of Correspondence

• Group who would be responsible for coordinating info and resistance efforts throughout the colonies

• Provoked Colonial Unity

Tea Act

• Resulted from the tax in the Townshend Acts and remaining debt of the East India Company

• Eliminated the import duty and lowered the price of East India Tea

Boston Tea Party

• 50 men dressed as MOhawk Indians & dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston harbor

• Put a target on Boston, Mass.

Coercive Acts (CA)

• Designed to hit Boston the hardest as a result of the Boston Tea Party

CA - Boston Port Act

• Closing of the Boston harbor until the town paid for the tea by June 1st

• Caused Boston’s economy to decline

CA - Massachusetts Government Act

• Revoke Massachusetts charter and made the government less democratic

• Restricted number of Town meetings in Mass.

CA - Administrative Justice Act

• Any person charged with murder while enforcing royal authority could be tried in England

• Connects to Boston massacre

CA - Quartering Act II

• British troops could be in unoccupied private homes and other public buildings

Quebec Act

• Established a formal government for Quebec

• Established Roman Catholicism and civil law to exist for French Canadians

• Angered Colonists who saw this as a threat to expansion

!st Continental Congress

• 12 of the colonies try to find a way for defending the colonies’ rights

• Wrote a Declaration of Rights - boycotting British goods

• Declared Intolerable Acts as unconstitutional

Lexington and Concord

• British attempts to seize military supplies at Concord, but were confronted at Lexington

• Results in the start of the Revolutionary war with the colonists securing vicotry

2nd Continental Congress

• Attended by all 13 colonies

• Organized the Continental Army

• Established a way government

• Approved the Declaration of Independence on July 2nd